Probably 10 or 12 years ago in a dinky historic town near me, a house was stealing power from its next-door neighbor, City Hall, just with an extension cord to an outdoor receptacle. Someone from the city noticed it and thought it was a contractor doing a remodel but he still unplugged it and threw the cord back over the fence. The next day the cord was back, but this time the city worker looked inside the house and saw the city was paying for a meth lab's electric.

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Norv Turner: Man, I wish just once someone would fly cross country in a cessna B377SGT Super Guppy and just toss seeds out the window.

That's some fine police work, Lou.

Marijuana/hemp is a weed in the literal sense: It grows wild. Not the good stuff, of course, but it's entirely possible for seeds to sprout wherever they get dropped. Then they grow like, well, weeds.

We found a four-foot tall hemp plant in amongst the landscaping in Disney's California Adventure one day--our on-site cop had to go and uproot it and tag&bag it like it was evidence. It was all by itself, just the one plant, nice and green and healthy. How did it get there? Someone dropped a roach? A bird flew over and shiat out a seed? Who knows.

A lot of pot farms would probably go unnoticed if only the farmers were smart enough to hide the plants out in regular weeds.

LeroyBourne: I love how the cops didn't notice the smell, but when they pull you over after hours the first thing they say is "smells like alcohol in here." Even if no one has had a drop.

Growing pot really doesn't smell like much unless you're close. It doesn't have that unique pot stench until it's been dried and/or crushed. If you're upwind of a field, you might not notice, especially in a city where everything smells like car exhaust.

Alcohol in a closed car smells like alcohol; although if you've been in a club and smell like smoke, what the cops mean is "Smells like you MIGHT HAVE BEEN drinking."

Don't ask how I know this.

Not for nothing... but shouldn't the headline say " Just Metres from the police station "? And they didn't answer the big question. How many litres are there to a hogshead?

/Metric Nazi
//God save the Queen

jjwars1: Gyrfalcon: LeroyBourne: I love how the cops didn't notice the smell, but when they pull you over after hours the first thing they say is "smells like alcohol in here." Even if no one has had a drop.

Growing pot really doesn't smell like much unless you're close. It doesn't have that unique pot stench until it's been dried and/or crushed. If you're upwind of a field, you might not notice, especially in a city where everything smells like car exhaust.

Alcohol in a closed car smells like alcohol; although if you've been in a club and smell like smoke, what the cops mean is "Smells like you MIGHT HAVE BEEN drinking."

Don't ask how I know this.

Obviously you haven't been around a healthy potent plant then.

I have. And that's, in fact, how I know.